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UNITED STATES rricE.

PATENT JAMES TIMMS, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE BUCKEYE MALLE- ABLE IRON AND COUPLER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,977, dated. November 2, 1897.

Application filed M810}! 12, 1897! Serial No. 627 182. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES TIMMs, of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in car-couplings, and more particularly to swinging couplers, such as are especially adapted for tender equipments, the object being to afford substantial support for the coupling; and it consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a View in front elevation, partly in section; and Fig. 4 is a View in vertical section.

A represents a bracket comprising in the main the vertical plate 1 and the horizontal plate 2, said plates being integral with each other and extending at or substantially at right angles to each other. The vertical plate 1 is ofiset about the thickness of the plate, more or less, as at 3, and this offset portion is sunk into the surface of the sill of the car. At the lower end of the vertical portion 1 there is formed the rearward extension 4, which rests beneath the sill. The bracket thus formed is secured to the sill by means of bolts extending through holes 6 6 in the vertical plate. tended forward to the rear of the draw-head, it constituting an extended support for the draw-head. This horizontal plate or floor of the bracket is strengthened and reinforced by the longitudinal ribs 7 7. Ribs 8 are in like manner formed at the top to strengthen the bracket at this point.

In the side walls the pockets or recesses 10 10 are formed, and in them stifi spiral springs 11 11 are placed. Two horizontal ribs 12 12 extend in a curved direction from top and bottom of these pockets or recesses around the rear wall or face and thus strengthen the bracket at these points.

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B is the draw-head. It is provided with the short shank 13, which enters the mouth or cavity of the bracket, where it is pivotally connected at its extreme rear end by means of a pin which extends through the bracket and shank. The shank is braced and reinforced by the horizontal ribs or flanges 17 17.

In this way a strong coupling is produced, and it is applied solely tot-he end sill. Heretofore there has been the objection that these draw-heads had such short shanks that they dropped down from a horizontal position. This objection is effectually obviated by the extension outward of the bottom plate or floor 1, as shown. This successfully supports the draw-head in its horizontal position, and the springs at the sides hold it centered and yet permit lateral movement.

The bracket itself is so braced and ribbed that it is fully reinforced to withstand the strain and punishment to which it is being constantly subjected.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Q 1. A bracket for the attachment of a draw head to a car, comprising a vertical back plate, horizontal top and bottom plates vertical side plates and the horizontal ribs extending around the inner walls of the vertical side and back plates.

2. A bracket for the attachment of a drawhead to a car, comprising a vertical and horizontal plate, ribs beneath the latter, and an offset formed in the vertical plate adapted to be sunk into the sill of the car.

3. The combination with a draw-head having a shank of a bracket in which the shank is pivoted, and springs bearing between the shank and the inner side walls of the bracket to yieldingly center the draw-head. I

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES TIMMS.

Witnesses:

O. S. DRURY, G. F. DoWNING. 

